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 buy them. Finally, he left them at Tangier; there they be, o many as live, or are born there. An Englihman, a maon, came thence to Boton, he told me they deired I would ue ome means for their return home. I know not what to do in it; but now it is in my heart to move your honour, o to meditate, that they may have leave to get home, either from thence hither, or from thence to England, and o to get home. If the Lord hall pleae to move your charitable heart herein, I hall be obliged in great thankfulnes, and am peruaded that Chrit will, at the great day, reckon it among your deeds of charity done unto them, for his name's ake." M. H. S. Coll., ., 183.

Cotton Mather furnihes another extract appropriate in this connection.

"Moreover, 'tis a Prophey in Deut. 28, 68. The Lord hall bring thee into Egypt again with hips, by the way whereof I pake unto thee. Thou shalt ee it no more again; and there hall ye be old unto your Enemies, and no Man hall buy you. This did. our Eliot imagine accomplihed, when the Captives taken by us in our late Wars upon them, were ent to be old, in the Coats lying not very remote from Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, and carce any Chapmen would offer to take them off." Mather's Magnalia, Book, Part.

Mr. Everett, in one of the mot elaborate of his finihed and beautiful orations, has narrated the tory of two of the lat captives in that famous war, in a paage of furpaing eloquence which we venture to quote:

"Preident Mather, in relating the encounter of